A menina que brincava com fogo

[b:Dragon 2429135 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) Stieg Larsson http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1275608878s/2429135.jpg 1708725] primarily dealt with Mikael Blomkvist and the Vanger family, in Fire we (finally) learn a lot more about Salander. Definitely recommend you read Dragon first to understand the continuing characters. After Dragon and some of it's dark moments, I was just a bit concerned that Fire may be too dark for my taste with the cover summary stating that Blomkvist's next big story will be about sex trafficking. After completing Fire, and can say that I thought Dragon was actually the darker of the two stories. Still very good character development. After the crime, each new character introduction had me considering how they could possibly be integrated into the crimes! I also thought the suspense for the 40 year old Vanger disappearance was better than the present day crime that Fire deals with. I felt the background and development for two of the characters was a little extreme (you know who if you've read). There were some strange turns in Dragon, but it all felt believable. These two characters in Fire were just a little too extreme for me to chalk this up as a believable story. Yes this is fiction, but but not fantasy... There were some very big points were left unfinished and I was disappointed with the cliffhanger ending. I am still looking forward to reading Hornet, but wish I could begin it with a clean slate, not to close things that should already be resolved.